The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-06-29

menCe a series of lectures on the Incidents
of the war, mostly from personal knowledge.
Roxbury.
ID. G. FREEMAN, Esq, of Swanton was
here on Saturday - II. VanDeusen has
moved to Mrs. Morgan's house. INV.
Kemp and NJ. E. Smile were in town on
Saturday. - Michael Flynn was ar
rested last week Wednesday for assault and
battery and fined So and costs by Justice
Clark Flint. - w. II. Rising was fined
$40 and costs for furnishing cider last
Wednesday, - Appearances indicate an
unusually heavy hay crop. - Clarence
Bruce and wife of Laconia, N. H., are in
town.
WaitsfieId.
THERE will be a lawn party and sociable
at u. III. McAllister's Wednesday evening,
July 9th. Ice-cream and cake will be served.
All are cordially invited and will receive a
hearty welcome. = The pastor of the
Methodist church will preach Fourth of
July temperance sermon next Sunday
morning. Good Templars as well as other
temperance people are especially invited to
be present.
Warren.
THE Womans Christian Temperance
Union will meet with Mrs. NJ. E. Perkins
next Tuesday afternoon. - f. Miller
has taken the job of building the bridge near
the Bannister mill and is now at work upon
it. - Remember the basket temperance
picnic the Fourth of July A cordial invi-
tation is extended to all and the Sunday
schools are especially invited. - Dr. NJ.
E. Gleason of Ftzwilliam, y. H., has been
stopping in town for few days.
East Warren.
THE Ladies' Mite Society is to meet with
Mrs. NJ. Il. Goodspeed, Thursday afternoon
June Both. A full attendance is desired
- About sixty invited guests gathered
at j. c. Gleason's Wednesday evening, June
22d, the occasion being the marriage of Susie
Gleason and Edgar Heath A large num-
Der of beautiful and appropriate gifts were
left as tokens of love and respect.
Mr., and Mrs Luther Harmon and son of
Omaha. Neb., and Mrs. Caroline Harmon
of Sutfeld, Ct, have been guests of Will
lam p. Harmon the past week. - Henry
Child of Moretown spent last Sabbath with
his relatives here. - Mr.. and Mrs. Ma
hum Nichols made brief visit to North
field last week.
Waterbury Center.
Mrs. LYDIA WHITE, who went to the hos
pital at Burlington to have her hip un-
iointed, had the operation performed and
seemed at first in a fair way to recover, but
finally sank away and died last Wednesday.
Her body was brought home for burial last
week Thursday, and her funeral was at
tended Friday. - R. H. Mathers' father
and mother from Essex, n. Y, are visiting
in this place. - Mrs. j. w Burgn re-
turned home from Washington last Satur-
day. - Will Ayers, while at work peel
ing bark for E. X. Town last week, received
severe cut across the cheek, caused by an
axe hitting limb over his head. - Dea.
John White died last Sunday morning, aged
eighty-two. He was buried Monday after
noon. - Edwin Parker and family left
for Middebury last Monday, where they
will remain a few weeks before returning
home to Minneapolis. - Rev. E. B.
L,,ll .lgl f.l,
lists at Ellenburgh, n. Y, last Saturday
and Sunday. - Dea. Joseph Gillett, al
though in very poor health, was taken to his
daughters Mrs. Charles Clark's) at Mont
pelier last Saturday. - j. ID. Clough, a
graduate of the seminary at Montpelier, and
later from Boston, where he graduated from
the law university, and where since then
he has been in the practice of his profession,
was in this place Saturday and Sunday Wis
iting friends. Mr. Clough is on his way to
Kansas, where he hopes to find an opening.
- S. A Mansfield has sold his interest
in the farm lately occupied by K. G. Wallace
and himself to Wallace.
Woodbury..
Mrs. E. n. AINswoRTH invited her neigh
bors to her house June Goth, where she had
plenty of warm sugar and snow for them.
- There is an abundant crop of nice
field strawberries. - The back pastures
in the northern part of this town are looking
finely and are well supplied with cattle and
horses. - Fishermen are vending their
way with tents and boats to Buck pond,
where they are hoping to catch a supply of
black bass and enjoy camping among the
hills of Vermont. - Lucius Burnham
and wife have been in Middlesex visiting
friends the past week. - Miss Charlotte
Burnham from Massachusetts, visited in
town last week. She will spend few weeks
here visiting her parents and other friends
South Woodbury..
THERE is an epidemic raging here that
takes the people by course and leaves them
the worse for the call. The doctor pro-
nounces it a sort of malaria. Mrs. Il, NJ.
Pray is i'll with this distemper as is also
Mrs. Frank Batchelder. Many more are re-
covering from it, - Mrs. Flora Nelson is
very i'll with congestion of the lungs -
There are five guests at the Lake View
House, and more are expected next week.
- Melvin Teachout sold Fearnaught
colt last week for $500 to some gentlemen
from New York.
Worcester.
THE Methodist society, by invitation held
quarterly meeting services in the Congrega-
tional church last Sabbath. - The foun-
dation of the new church is completed and
the walls are we'll under way. - Clair
Collier recently cut the back of his right
hand severely, severing some of the cords
- III. NJ. Harris, with some friends, has
gone TO Ferdinand on a fishing trip. -
Mrs. Albert Wheelock picked a straw berry
in her garden measuring six inches in cir
cumference.